Meg's Reviews > Timeless

Maybe my favorite in the series, and I'm sorry there aren't more. I did have one big issue, which is also a big spoiler.

(view spoiler)[So maybe 3/4ths of the way through the book, Lord Maccon dies. And pretty convincingly too - he's been shot a few times, he falls an indeterminate but substantial distance, and he's totally human at the time. So dead. And Alexia's reaction to it is very moving and feels very real. She's emotionally paralyzed, but she still does what needs to be done.

Only then it turns out that, tee hee, he's not dead after all! Indeed, he was rescued, badly injured, but not so badly injured that he can't go jumping into combat a week later (admittedly re-werewolfed at this point). And what was the point of all of this exactly? The baddies had already stolen a baby, so it's not like Alexia needed her reckless grief to motivate her to risk herself by following their demands. Given the rest of the series, it's not really a question that she and her husband will forgive each other. And the whole sequence seemed to trivialize the idea that werewolves are mortal when their powers are canceled out. I know Lord Maccon is awesome and all, but still! He was shot with an elephant gun and fell out of a balloon! (hide spoiler)]

/whew. In any case, I suppose I'm grumpy about the spoilery thing because otherwise I did like the book very much. Plus I'm grumpy because the series was over, just when I was really starting to fall in love with the Professor and Biffy. Ah well. Better to leave them wanting more than to wear out your welcome, I guess?